Frases de Amin Maalouf

“Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.”

Amin Maalouf livro Leo Africanus

“I am the son of the road, my country is a caravan and my life is the most unexpected of voyages. i belong to earth and to the god and it is to them that I will one day soon return”

Amin Maalouf

“We are not just visitors on this planet, it belongs to us just as we belong to her, its past is ours, so is its future.”

Amin Maalouf livro The First Century after Beatrice

“A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.”

Amin Maalouf livro In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong

“For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the way we look at them that may set them free.”

Amin Maalouf livro In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong